Wayne Wang’s ‘Coming Home Again’ To Be Handled By Asian Shadows1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpecialty film sales agent Asian Shadows has picked up international rights to “Coming Home Again” by Wayne Wang, one of Asia’s most celebrated directors. The film, which tackles food, family and mortality, will premiere as a special presentation at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival in September.
Based on a short story of the same name published in The New Yorker by bestselling Korean-American novelist Lee Chang-rae (“Native Speaker,” “A Gesture Life,” “The Surrendered”), “Coming Home Again” charts the emotions of what is to be the last New Year’s Eve dinner together for an Asian American family whose mother has terminal cancer.
Asian Shadows is handing worldwide rights sales with the exception of those for the U.S., which are to be handled by ICM Partners.
The film stars Justin Chon (the “Twilight” series, “Gook”) and Jackie Chung (“Station 19,” “Someone Else”), as well as Christina July Kim and John Lie. The film is a U.S.-South Korea production by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). It is produced by Donald Young, with Stephen Gong, Heidi Levitt and Jean Noh as executive producers.
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